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Date:      Thu, 4 Jan 1996 16:03:06 +1100
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        FreeBSD-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org, witr@rwwa.com
Subject:   Re: help: 2.1.0 reboots with high network load
Message-ID:  <199601040503.QAA13376@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>> vmstat -i:
>> interrupt      total      rate
>> clk0 irq0      729041      100
>> rtc0 irq8      932875      128

>Incidentally, is this an artifact, or does this really mean
>a load of 228 interrupts/second for timekeeping?  Is this
>a softclk/hardclk thing?

This is standard.  It is a hardclk/statistics clock thing.
It costs cost about 0.3% on my 486DX2/66 according to systat.
The 128 statistics clock interrupts aren't counted properly.
The actual overhead is about 0.5%.

Bruce



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